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Rosemont ON | This might be a dumb question, but can you put tubes into radial tires that are ment to be tubeless and not hurt the tubes and will the tires still work the way rarials are ment to work? |
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Kingston,Mi | Yes you can install RADIAL tubes in any radial tire, will still funtion the same. Radial tubes are designed to work with radial or bias tires while bias tire tubes will fail in radial tires. |
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Faunsdale, AL | Have seen a few tires that have such rough molding ribs on the inside they'll chafe a tube over time, but that's unusual.
I usually use stopleak compound if possible instead of putting a tube in. |
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SE Michigan | Had tha thappen to mine on a IH 986.
After the tubes were replaced, the tire guy dumped a can of baby powder in each tire (between the tube and tire)
Told me it acted like a lube between the tire and tube because of the flex in a radial. For about $1/tire was worth it to me..... |
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| You can.... but it's been my observation that unless you keep them aired up pretty tight you're going to shear the stems off the tubes. I'd almost say that if you want to carry enough air in a radial to keep tubes in it reliably... you just as well buy yourself bias tires because the radial advantage is shot with that much air.
I'm not talking about using bias tubes or even cheap tubes either. These were the high dollar, Firestone natural rubber radial tubes.
I think I've got one radial tire left loaded right now that has a tube. The rest are now dry and most of them tubeless if the wheels were good enough to hold air.... Dry tubelsss tires are MUCH easier to repair. Quicker, easier cheaper. Just make sure you've got a Bead Cheetah or know how to inflate with ether.
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ecsd | I put tubes in all my radial tractor tires, no problems what so ever. That baby powder trick does work pretty good. |
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Tire tubes in radial tires?
